Word: commissioner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Letting out the first growl of its life, the year-old federal Civil Rights Commission announced last week that it will use its subpoena powers to gather in witnesses and records for public hearings on denial of voting rights to Alabama Negroes. Place and time of hearings: Montgomery, Ala., starting...
Like his political history, Jim Curley's Harvard History begins before the turn of the century in the day when a few of the boys at Pete Whalen's cigar store talked him into running for Boston's Common Council. Old Ward 17, an immigrant district which included City Hospital...
Thus went the talk, the distilled ideas danced circles in the air, and there Falstaff stood, an outsider, one of the happy few. He just had to cultivate a frustration, if only a mild one; and this was no mean commission. Falstaff gathered his vague resolution and tried to desire...
But toward week's end, any illusions of progress toward negotiated disarmament got a sudden jolt. In Washington, the Atomic Energy Commission announced that the Soviet Union had set off two nuclear explosions since the start of the Geneva conference. The explosions, "both of relatively low yield," took place...
For General Telephone, the little giant of the phone business, the road up began in 1935 with the reorganization of Associated Telephone Utilities, a bankrupt grab bag of country telephone companies, mostly in the Midwest. Hampered by antique equipment, the company hung on through the '30s and the war...